Royal Navy man jailed in 2001 for two murders allegedly sexually assaulted four others, jury told

A former Royal Navy petty officer, jailed for life 25 years ago for murdering two young men, sexually assaulted four other boys and men in the same era, a jury has been told. Allan Grimson was jailed in 2001 for battering Nicholas Wright, 18, and Sion Jenkins, 20, to death at his flat above a parade of shops in Portsmouth, Hampshire, in 1997 and 1998. A jury at Winchester crown court has been told that from the mid to late 1990s, Grimson, now 66, allegedly sexually assaulted four boys and men, the youngest only 14. John Price KC, prosecuting, said Grimson was an instructor at the navy’s firefighting school at Horsea Island in Hampshire. “This posting brought Allan Grimson into contact with many young males aged in their late teens; novices in the naval service, subject to a regime of strict discipline and over all of whom Allan Grimson exercised great authority.” Sion Jenkins. Photograph: PA Price said Grimson had served with the navy since 1978. “He was a big powerful man and within the service admired as a capable instructor.” The jury was told that one of the murder victims, Wright, was a member of the Royal Navy and the other, Jenkins, had also briefly been in the service. Both were attacked by Grimson with a baseball bat. Price said one of the complainants of sexual assault joined the navy when he was 16. He came into contact with Grimson in 1999 when he attended a firefighting course and they got talking at a “drink-up”. …